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YouTube is reporting on the company blog that the site's YouChoose '08 page is getting some changes as the candidate field continues to narrow. As the national focus begins to shift from the primaries and caucuses to the conventions and eventual nati...

It appears that RealNetworks may be looking to purchase Scrabulous, the much-loved Scrabble clone that was the favorite app amongst Facebook employess mere months ago. According to a comment made by Om Malik of GigaOM (in response to a New York Times...

Facebook has grown to very notable international proportions (numerically speaking) over the last couple of years, but it’s been slow to expand its lingual repertoire. Only recently has the site been amended to allow users whose primary language is S...

The 2008 U.S. Presidential election is in full swing now. Of course, it arguably has been geared up to a full-on race for the Democratic and Republican party nominations, yet only recently have we been given the privilege of hindsight into the conten...

A rumor peddled by Peter Kafka of Silicon Alley Insider in a article sent to press Friday morning, concerning IAC’s alleged consideration of the replacement of Ask’s search engine technology, Teoma, with the vastly more popular system employed by Goo...

You may have noticed that it's a pretty big week for social networking profile pages. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube...well, that's about it, but still. It's kind of a big deal. YouTube announced its new profile page a few days before it was actually av...

Were you one of those kids that could sit in a corner with a giant "Where's Waldo" book and pour over it for hours? Eventually you realized that Waldo was likely to appear in different areas on each page, and was always smiling (usually walking), and...

Google is all about social collaboration this week. After launching Sites, we see an update to Google's recently launched My Library. You may recall that this personalized library tool acts somewhat as a bookmarking service that aligns with the Googl...

MySpace has been staying on top of its political game through its Impact Channel, giving the users on this youth-oriented site a direct way in which to participate in the political scene. One of the more prominent ways in which MySpace is doing this ...

A number of you may be reading this post from somewhere around the San Francisco Bay Area. But chances are you’ve got a home of your own; whether it be a rental or something you or a familial relative have shelled out many a penny for. Which is all g...

Mixx, to date one of the best-looking competitors to Digg, the preeminent chieftain of the user-submitted news aggregation world, has announced the launch of its very own Facebook app. And we gotta say, Mixx fans will feel right at home when using th...

Facebook revealed its profile page makeover to the world yesterday, but let's not forget that this ever-popular social network still has a ways to go in order to catch MySpace. Many of the changes we've seen Facebook undergo in recent weeks have been...

Google Maps is an evolving resource. What began as a simple Web-based roadmap quickly became something widely utilized for its satellite imagery and later turned into something of a mashup of business listings and traffic alerts and more - not to men...

Jangl has been hard at work integrating its VoIP services into various social networks and applications. Last year Jangl added SMS support, which was also tied in to its integration with existing social networks. Today, Jangl is reporting a 5x increa...

Recently funded site, The Point, is an online petition service of sorts, where you can join various movements in order to show your support. Mark interviewed the founders of The Point a couple of months back, so you may recall that the differentiatin...

Cake Financial has just launched a Facebook application. You can take your investment knowledge to your Facebook friends, share your investment portfolio and gain from the collective knowledge of all your b-school college friends. The important infor...

The rumored trans-Pacific fiber optic cable linking the US and Japan is finally coming to fruition. Called Unity, the high-bandwidth, sub-sea cable is a project headed by Google and five other international companies, including Bharti Airtel, Global ...

The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared in a Danish newspaper last year have found their way on to YouTube, and this has caused the country of Pakistan to decide to block access to the popular site. Islamic religious law says that no one m...

So Facebook is enabling Flash to be used on profile pages, according to a report on All Facebook. What's that all about? There seems to be a general fear that the introduction of Flash will turn the majority of Facebook profiles pages to MySpace-esqe...

iFamily has shed its Adams Family appearance and taken on a far more friendly persona. Renamed Familybuilder, you may recall that the iFamily (now Familybuilder) application works by looking to your existing network within Facebook in order to connec...

Mars UK is taking the concept of gifting to a whole new level. The maker of candy bars is in the development phase for creating a Facebook application that will allow members to actually buy chocolate for each other, according to a report on Food Pro...

Is Facebook losing steam in the UK? Has the network reached its plateau? Or is a reported dip in user numbers between December ’07 and January ’08 simply seasonal? The Guardian’s Mark Sweney is reporting today that Facebook - the network that has app...

Make a spoof celebrity profile on a major social network lately? Well, don't. Not if you live in Morocco, at least. 26 year-old Fouad Mourtada, an IT engineer, has been arrested for making a fake Facebook profile for Prince Moulay Rachid, the younger...

YouTube took its video-sharing network off to Spain in the not too distant past, and teamed up with a local news station to take advantage of the nation's election of a new prime minister. This was done in a manner similar to YouTube's partnership wi...

Google has made some bad decisions in the past, and doesn't always handle its customers with white gloves. When the company launched Street Views maps without blurring out personally identifying information like faces and license plate numbers, I scr...

Rafat Ali of Paid Content is reporting that the Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) site, Xunlei, is being sued by the MPA for repeated copyright violation of distributing pirated films. The lawsuit names numerous infractions and is seeking 7 million yuan ($1...

Are social networks healthy? That is what is now being asked by an increasing number of analysts today in response to the growing number of violent crimes and suicides related to the world of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and other sites. In a so-called “F...

Though Google is often said to be moving well ahead its primary competition (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) as far as new innovations are concerned, it is really behind the times with respect to some of the smaller things in life. Case in point: the post sc...

Lawsuits are nothing new for Google. Most of them lean towards the silly and patent-infringement type. But when they're getting accused of intellectual property theft, it's a whole other ball game. According to Elinor Mills of CNET, Google has receiv...

When talk of a News Corp./NBC Universal joint deal for a video site first came about, a lot of people were skeptical, especially in the rising face of YouTube, which dominated user-generated content, as well as copyrighted content, too. Could anythin...

Facebook isn’t an easy thing to quit. Literally. Sure, it’s popular and has been growing incessantly by leaps and bounds. Millions upon millions join the fold each and every quarter. But while many join, others wish to leave - and leave without a tra...

We haven't heard from WeFi in quite some time, but the service that launched nearly a year ago as a social look at wi-fi friends and finds you the fastest, open network around, is going mobile with support for Windows Mobile operating systems. As WeF...

Like online gaming? EA has noticed. Yes, so it seems. News broken a couple of days ago by Curt Feldman of Gametap, a subscription-based gaming service on the Web, Electronic Arts, one of the largest publishers of video game entertainment, is working ...

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